Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:12:03 -0400 From: Bob Collins <bob@anything-inc.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: swap not being mounted (or so I think) Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030626100724.00a9c948@mail.anything-inc.com> In-Reply-To: <20030626010634.GB38728@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200306252055.AA129695918@anything-inc.com> <200306252055.AA129695918@anything-inc.com>
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At 09:06 PM 6/25/2003, you wrote: >On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:55:36PM -0400, Bob Collins wrote: > > > I am running 5.0 Release on an i386 Intel system. I have 256MB ram > > and in /etc/fstab swap is called out for 492MB. How can I tell if > > this is mounted and in use? Mount does not indicate swap (/da0s1b) > > is mounted. > >Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so your emails can be easily >read. Oops, sorry, I was using a web interface emailer. This should work now (Eudora). >swap partitions are not mounted, because they're not filesystems. Use >swapinfo to check swap configuration. Great, it looks fine. swapinfo was exactly what I needed. > > I ask, as I cannot use dump to backup my raid. My raid is > > /dev/vinum/raid and mounted at /raid. When I try to dump either > > /dev/vinum/raid or /raid, the system panics and halts. I am thinking > > the dump is bombing due to lack of swap space. > >With 256MB of RAM, dump should not be touching swap. It sounds like >you have some other problem that you need to investigate more fully. > >Kris You are correct. I do not know what the heck happened, but after triple checking fsck and a remount of filesystems, all is fine. I was able to perform a dump with no errors. Thanks. Now, if I can just get restore to read the dumped tape.... I am getting an I/O error that it cannot read the tape, something about block size difference. I'll research that now. Thank you for your help. -- Bob
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